Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 2nd March 2008

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Category: Chinese, OOHanzi, Software, Technology

Change Log

20080302:

Updated for OOHanzi 0.3: the only new functionality is the addition of an “About…” menu item.

200802??:

Added some code to make things a bit more user friendly when a JRE is not properly installed.
Modified the way web browsers are launched.
Changed the nomenclature of menus and some functions.
General fixes to improve stability in Windows.

Status
This documentation deals [...]

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 2nd March 2008

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Category: Chinese, OOHanzi, Technology

Programing extensions for Open Office is painful.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 25th February 2008

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Category: Chinese, OOHanzi, Software, Technology

I’ve packaged all of OOHanzi for Ubuntu. I’m using Launchpad to host them. Follow the link for information about the sources that must be added to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use my repository. It is also possible to just use the web interface to download all 3 packages individually and install them one [...]

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 21st February 2008

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Category: Software, Technology

In June of last year, I moved from Dotclear to Wordpress to manage my blog. I have not regretted the move one bit. This morning I quickly took a look at the Dotclear web site and found that Dotclear 2 is still in beta. If I had stayed with Dotclear, I’d still [...]

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 8th February 2008

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Category: Software, Technology

DRM makes information structures more fragile: they are more likely to be receive less support across diverse computing environments and are more likely to be prematurely obsoleted.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 7th February 2008

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Category: Chinese, OOHanzi

Change Log

Added some code to make things a bit more user friendly when a JRE is not properly installed.
Modified the way web browsers are launched.
Changed the nomenclature of menus and some functions.
General fixes to improve stability in Windows.

Status
This documentation deals with version 0.2 of OOHanzi. This software is very much at the Alpha stage [...]

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 5th February 2008

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Category: Chinese, OOHanzi, Software

Version of the documentation: $Id: oohanzi-doc.xml 245 2008-02-06 03:44:41Z ldd $
Status
Everything is at version 0.1 right now. This software is very much at the Alpha stage of its life-cycle. Expect bugs. Expect nonsensical design decisions. Expect quirks.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 3rd December 2007

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Category: Software, Technology

The title of the Palm Infocenter post says it all: Google Maps My Location Not Coming To Palm OS. Why not? Because despite the fact that all Palm-based cell phones have all the information needed for Google Maps to triangulate our position, the Palm OS (Garnet) does not allow applications to access that [...]

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 15th August 2007

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Category: Software, Technology

I’m detailing here a procedure to make Firefox more secure by using a different profile for sensitive browsing. The solution presented is trivially implementable and does not require anything complicated from the user.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 21st January 2007

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Category: Software

After over 12 years of using Gnus as my mail reader, I’ve decided to move on. In the past few years Gnus had become increasingly difficult to use. Getting it to display HTML or multipart messages properly was a challenge. I’m sure there probably would have been a way to get it [...]